Samuel Johnson
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
Samuel Johnson
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. - Samuel Johnson quote

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

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Samuel Johnson

English poet, biographer, essayist, lexicographer

September 18th, 1709 - December 13th, 1784